Astronomy
This map unfolds the entire night sky from sunset (at right) until sunrise (at left). Arrows and colored dots show motions and l ...
ORION PERSEUS AURIGA TAURUS Pleiades Algol ` ¡ a a Aldebaran Path of Comet 46P/Wirtanen Dec 11 13 15 17 19 21 N E 5° Comet 46P/W ...
10° December 15, 45 minutes before sunrise Looking southeast VIRGO LIBRA OPHIUCHUS SCORPIUS Spica Venus Mercury Jupiter Path of ...
44 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 Interested in observing a red dwarf, supernova remnant, or galaxy cluster? We’ve got you covered. b ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 45 White dwarf Sirius B (8.6 light-years) Imagine a hot star the size of Earth, but with the mass of the Sun. ...
46 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 Barnard’s Star, it’s a “fast” mover — the fastest visible to the naked eye. With a pri- mary of mag ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 47 Supernova remnant Veil Nebula ( 1 ,4 7 0 light-years) The Veil Nebula has many names and several NGC number ...
48 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 The effects of light and dark on the lunar terminator offer some great observing fun. by Phil Harri ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 49 east of the V and Ukert Crater to a shadow feature nicknamed Aries’ Hoofprint. First mentioned by name a de ...
50 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 photo purporting to show the creature’s silhouetted head and neck rising out of the loch’s waters, ...
The Lunar City Moon Maiden Quincunx Sinus Iridum Lunar V Ptolemaeus Mare Nubium Hesiodus Sunrise Ray Eyes of Clavius Lunar L Lun ...
52 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 Mark Hanson admits he was never a stellar student, but his photography is out of this world. Meet a ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 53 me put my DSLR on it. While I was on the trip, Lynn showed me my own photograph of the Witch Head Nebula (I ...
54 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 about performing maintenance on a vari- ety of scopes. Through doing this, I’ve met some remarkable ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 55 These galaxies, NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, are nicknamed The Eyes. This is an LGRB image with exposures of 8, ...
56 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 new targets from the Southern Hemisphere has been fascinating. I’ve embraced the constant change an ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 57 This two-panel mosaic shows the well-known Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a or NGC 5194) and its companion (M51b or ...
58 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 D o you like to take images of large star fields or pictures of extended nebulous objects using an ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 59 camera. This camera’s detector is a stan- dard 36x24 mm chip with 9-micrometer pixels. It provided an image ...
60 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018 Astroimaging course PixInsight Instructional Videos and Tutorials Tucson, Arizona Astronomy Contrib ...
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